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- -: Beyond E-Books: The Future of Digital Storytelling

January 9, 2010 (over 14 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/23/Once_Upon_These_Times_New_Stories_for_New_Audiences Penguin UK digital publisher Jeremy Ettinghausen discusses the "We Tell Stories" project, which aimed to tell stories using innovative online formats. The project broadcast stories live online as aut...

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- -: Bing, Google and Wolfram Alpha on the Future of Search

March 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/25/Digital_Life_Design_2010_Search Drawing from location awareness and voice recognition technologies, representatives from Bing, Google and Wolfram Alpha weigh in on the future of Internet search. Bing's Blaise Aguera y Arcas promises a revised form of ...

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- -: Merging Art and Technology to Improve the World - Peter Hirshberg

March 4, 2010 (about 14 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/25/Digital_Life_Design_2010_Maps Peter Hirshberg, co-founder and chairman of The Conversation Group, narrates the historical tensions between art and technology. His projects use crime reports, pollution data, and crowd-sourcing to help bridge the gap be...

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- -: From Data to Digital Art: Animating Air Traffic, Texting and Thom Yorke

March 6, 2010 (about 14 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/25/Digital_Life_Design_2010_Maps Digital media artist Aaron Koblin shows off his animated visualizations of flight traffic mapping, text message usage and other illustrated projects, including an animated version of Thom Yorke's face created for an open ...

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- -: Making Sense of Raw Data: A Labor of Love - Beth Noveck

March 25, 2010 (about 14 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/04/Beth_Noveck_Transparent_Government U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer Beth Noveck explains why "loved data lasts longer." Noveck says the raw data offered online by the Open Government Initiative is useless to most citizens unless mashed-up and/or c...

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- -: Mapping a Bird's Brain Would Take Many Google Earths

March 31, 2011 (about 13 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/16/Mapping_the_Brain_and_Neural_Architectures Richard Hahnloser describes a significant obstacle to reconstructing neural networks of the brain. To map out the connections in a one millimeter sphere of a brain would require more data than it would take t...

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- -: When Disaster Strikes, Ushahidi Gives Social Check-Ins a Purpose

May 10, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/04/26/Advancing_the_New_Machine_Disaster_Responsev Patrick Meier, director of crisis mapping and partnerships at the non-profit tech company Ushahidi, explains how digital devices are capable of crowdsourcing real-time information to create maps of disaster...

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Charles Fleischer: Charles Fleischer Insists: All Things are Moleeds

March 1, 2005 (about 19 years ago)

In this speech, which will absolutely leave you in stitches, Fleischer rants on how he spent 27 years of his life on his epic theory on Moleeds.

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Source: TED

Lalitesh Katragadda: Making Maps to Fight Disaster, Build Economies

November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)

In this talk, Lalitesh Katragadda tells us about the importance of maps. He demos Google's Map Maker and shows us what the users around the world have done to help map our world.

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Source: TED

David Gallo: David Gallo on Life in the Deep Oceans

February 1, 1998 (about 26 years ago)

David Gallo and Bill Lange show different underwater wonders that thrive along the unexplored deep-sea volcanic vents to promote the conservation of these unknown yet fascinating communities in the ocean.

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Source: TED

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